Merge pull request #14322 from samuelkarp/retry-limactl-start

ci: retry limactl start on VM boot failure

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -663,7 +663,14 @@ jobs:
           key: lima-${{ steps.lima-actions-setup.outputs.version }}-${{ matrix.template }}
       - name: Boot VM
         # --plain keeps the guest pristine (no guest agent, no mounts, no port forwards)
-        run: limactl start --plain --name=default --cpus=2 --memory=4 --disk=60 "template:$LIMA_TEMPLATE"
+        run: |
+          limactl start --plain --name=default --cpus=2 --memory=4 --disk=60 "template:$LIMA_TEMPLATE" || {
+            # limactl can fail to download the VM image due to flakiness on the
+            # upstream mirrors, wait a bit and retry
+            limactl delete -f default || true
+            sleep 60
+            limactl start --plain --name=default --cpus=2 --memory=4 --disk=60 "template:$LIMA_TEMPLATE"
+          }
       - name: Copy the source code to the VM
         env:
           # $LIMA_WORKDIR does not exist yet